DraftKings' night slates often feature the marquee prime-time matchups in a standalone slate. FanDuel adds them all to the main slate and leaves off other good games in the afternoon. DraftKings setting up the slates like this is part of the reason that I play almost exclusively on DK now. Most of the good games […]

We've got the first of 14 monster DraftKings slates that will grace our Saturday afternoons all season long! We've got some ranked teams in action such as Texas, Indiana, and Ohio State. We've got some rebuilt teams such as Penn State and Auburn. Oregon paid Boise $2.5 million so they wouldn't have to go play […]

The Week 0 appetizer was a good one. We had 11 games on Thursday and eight more on Friday. Only 72 more games to go for our Week 1! The bad news is that only 33 of those are FBS vs. FBS contests. I won't pick FBS vs. FCS games. The lines are usually really […]

Former South Alabama and North Carolina quarterback Gio Lopez looked very good in his Wake Forest debut. Lopez was reunited with South Alabama's 2024 offensive coordinator, Rob Azell, in his Wake Forest debut. The result was the best game for Lopez in nearly two years. He threw for 350 yards and three touchdowns in Wake […]

Rutgers wide receiver KJ Duff, who was one of the first WRs off the board in college fantasy drafts, lived up to his billing in Week 1. The 6-foot-6 Duff hauled in nine passes for 196 yards and three touchdowns. The rest of the Rutgers players caught seven passes for 46 yards in arguably the […]

Former Mississippi quarterback Austin Simmons was excellent in his Missouri debut Thursday night. Simmons completed 17 of his 19 passes for 252 yards and four touchdowns. Two of those touchdowns went to Donovan Olugbode. Simmons was named the starter for Mississippi last year, but was hurt in Week 2. Trinidad Chambliss was excellent filling in […]

A court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, granted a temporary injunction against the SEC and NCAA to allow former Cleveland Browns tight end Dae'Quan Wright and former New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Zxavian Harris to return to college football. The case was brought by LSU against the NCAA to allow Wright and Harris to play in […]

Updating a previous report, Colorado wide receiver Danny Scudero (ankle) is now probable to play on Thursday night vs. Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Kickoff is in 25 minutes, so get him in your fantasy lineups. This is a great matchup for Scudero in Colorado's new "go-go" offense, the brainchild of offensive coordinator Brennan Marion. Scudero […]

Colorado wide receiver Danny Scudero (ankle) is listed as a game-time decision for Thursday night's game against Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Scudero injured his ankle earlier in fall camp. Scudero had 88 receptions for 1,297 yards and 10 touchdowns with San Jose State last year. Scudero was spotted on the field with Colorado during warmups […]

Toughest schedules are hard to gauge. They are all subjective, based on a ranking system that is biased toward teams that did well the previous season or toward teams that are traditionally good. Don't even get me started on the conference bias. Nine SEC teams are ranked in the AP top 25. Five are in […]

DraftKings took the same approach as the Thursday slate this week and avoided all FBS vs. FCS matchups. I don't blame them. It's hard for them to get accurate pricing on those teams and just as hard for us to pick them. This levels the field a little more. We have three ranked teams in […]

Week 0 gave us eight interesting games. We saw old faces in new places. Some fared better than others. We saw old faces in old places with predictably good results. The appetizer is over. Now we get into the heart of college football. There are 91 games spread out over the next five days. Only […]

College football isn't officially back until the ESPN College Pick'em pools are opened. Now, we can finally make some picks! As those of you who have been around for a while know, we run a Pick'em pool for RotoBaller readers. We encourage you to join because RotoBaller is giving away some prizes aside from the […]

Last week was a solid appetizer. Week 0 came and went without any major upsets at the FBS level. Some teams looked better than we thought they would. Some looked awful. Some of those teams are back in action this week. We have a whole new slate of players for Thursday. There are a total […]

We not only get a full week of college football games, but we get five straight days of high-quality college football. We have 91 college football games between Thursday and Monday this week. There aren't many teams with "bad" matchups in Week 1, but considering some teams have a ridiculously easy FCS opponent or a […]

We already covered which teams will have the toughest road to glory this year. What about the inverse? We're only going to cover Power 4 teams since the schedules for Group of 6 teams are inherently easier. Believe it or not, there are teams in power conferences who only play one or two ranked teams. […]

We finally had some college football games over the weekend. The eight-game slate wasn't a monster by any means, but there was still some very good (and very bad) football. Did any of the eight teams deserve a spot in our rankings? Absolutely! Do all eight of them? Not a chance! Florida State won ugly. […]

UNLV coach Dan Mullen told the press earlier this week that the Rebels would use both Auburn transfer Jackson Arnold and Alex Orji in the opening game against Memphis. Arnold played so well that Orji rarely saw the field and didn't attempt a pass. Arnold completed 25-of-37 passes for 291 yards and a pair of […]

Stanford opened the 2026 season with a 37-27 win over Hawaii in Palo Alto. RB Micah Ford ran 25 times for 99 yards and three touchdowns in the win. Ford only had four rushing touchdowns in 12 games in 2025. Ford was the 70th RB off the board in Yahoo fantasy drafts this year. It […]

North Carolina State fell flat in its 2026 season opener at Charlottesville, Virginia. The home team dominated the Pack in a 34-8 defeat. QB CJ Bailey, who accounted for 3,320 yards and 31 touchdowns last year, struggled in this one. Bailey completed only 12 of his 23 pass attempts for 84 yards and an interception. […]

TCU opened the season with a 15-10 loss to North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland. Carolina's defense held TCU to 286 yards of offense. RB Jeremy Payne had 142 of those yards on 25 carries. Payne showed why he was a first-round pick in every draft with his tough running in a losing effort. Jon Denman […]

North Carolina's offense sputtered in 2025, but that was likely to change with former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino coming in as the offensive coordinator. The star of the offense was former Ohio State TE Jelani Thurman. Thurman caught four passes for 94 yards in his UNC debut. He was featured early in the game and […]

News came down earlier this week that star USC wide receiver Tanook Hines would likely miss the game against San Jose State. That left a lot of targets open for USC's gaggle of true freshmen receivers. Both Trent Mosley and Kayden Dixon-Wyatt started the game for No. 14 USC. Mosley had a huge game, with […]

As expected, Arizona State is going into the 2026 season with Kentucky transfer Cutter Boley as the starting quarterback. Boley started 11 games as a redshirt freshman for Kentucky last season, completing 65.8% of his 301 passing attempts for 2,160 yards. He threw 15 touchdowns, but offset that with 12 interceptions. Boley won the job […]

We've waited months for this! College football is finally back! It has been a crazy eight months of free agency, court rulings, players breaching NIL contracts, players trying to breach NIL contracts, and even 2026-altering injuries in camp. We can finally put all of that behind us. College football dropped the "Week 0" bit, but […]

College football has always induced passionate arguments from fans. For over 100 years, the argument over who was the best team wasn't settled on the field. When BYU won the national championship in 1984, the big conferences were so mad that they began collaborating on ways to keep something like that from ever happening again. […]

Kansas named Isaiah Marshall as the starting quarterback for the 2026 season. His first start will come against Long Island on September 4. Marshall saw limited action last year as a freshman, completing all three pass attempts for 28 yards. He also had 15 carries for 160 yards. Marshall beat out Cole Ballard for the […]

The preseason polls are out for both the AP and the Coaches Polls. Our preseason top 25 is also out, so we'll go through the discrepancies between our poll and the publicly released ones. I did a piece like this last year. As with any preseason polls, there is right, and there is wrong. I […]

On Tuesday, it was reported that Alabama defensive lineman Jeremiah Beaman (knee) was injured in Sunday's practice. On Wednesday, it was revealed that Beaman suffered a season-ending ACL tear. Beaman started the season opener against Florida State in 2025 but didn't record any stats. He tore his ACL in practice the following week and missed […]

Former Boston College and Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos has committed to Texas Tech, according to On3. Castellanos was granted a temporary restraining order against the NCAA for a fifth season of eligibility last week. Castellanos played sparingly at Central Florida as a freshman in 2022 before transferring to Boston College in 2023. He started […]